Wanda's Picks Radio Show, Friday, January 29, 2021

 This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay! 

1. Lisa Goshon is the President of LGI Branding Inc. and the first minority-woman in the U.S. to manufacture N95 surgical-grade face mask.  She’s also the pioneer of the patented biometric authentication 2-way exchange software called “PECX” and founder of the Black Women of COVID Alliance.  Lisa resides in Southern California.

Nikcole Cunningham is an adoption social worker for Department of Human Services in San Francisco, California where she supports families with mental health services and ongoing difficult issues.  

1. Lisa Goshon is the President of LGI Branding Inc. and the first minority-woman in the U.S. to manufacture N95 surgical-grade face mask.  She’s also the pioneer of the patented biometric authentication 2-way exchange software called “PECX” and founder of the Black Women of COVID Alliance.  Lisa resides in Southern California.

Nikcole Cunningham is an adoption social worker for Department of Human Services in San Francisco, California where she supports families with mental health services and ongoing difficult issues.  

2. Watershed Environmental Poetry Festival is this weekend, Jan. 30-31. We are joined by Joyce Jenkins, editor, Poetry Flash and Kim Shuck, SF Poet Laureate to talk about this event. PoetryFlash.org

Kim Shuck was born in San Francisco, California, and is a member of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma. She received a BA in Art and an MFA in Textiles from San Francisco State University. Shuck is the author of Deer Trails, from City Lights Books, 2019), Clouds Running In (Taurean Horn Press, 2014), Rabbit Stories (Poetic Matrix Press, 2013), and Smuggling Cherokee (Greenfield Review Press, 2005), as well as of the chapbook collection Sidewalk Ndn (FootHills Press, 2018). In 2019, Shuck was named an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow and awarded a PEN Oakland Censorship Award. In 2020 she received the NCBR Groundbreaker Award. She served as the Poet Laureate of San Francisco, 2017-2020.

Joyce Jenkins is Editor and Director of Poetry Flash, Literary Review (Poetryflash.org), presenter of the Poetry Flash Reading Series, Northern California Book Awards, and Watershed Environmental Poetry Festival. Her poems have appeared in Ambush Review, ZYZZYVA, Addison Street Anthology: Berkeley’s Poetry Walk, The Place That Inhabits Us: Poems of the San Francisco Watershed, and elsewhere. She is the author of Joy Road, a chapbook, and Portal, introduction by Carolyn Kizer.

Kudos include the American Book Award 1994, National Poetry Association’s Distinguished Service to Poets & Poetry Award 1995, and PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Lifetime Achievement Award 2006. A City of Berkeley day was proclaimed for her in honor of the Berkeley Poetry Festival Lifetime Achievement Award 2009. Poetry Flash received Litquake’s Barbary Coast Award in 2012.

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